FSU coach Leonard Hamilton said he remains confident in the progress made by first-year post players such as Kiel Turpin.

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Jim Lamar
| Democrat associate editor

Asked about the struggles his young post players have had this season, the FSU men's basketball coach seemed eager to talk about the subject. It's a topic that he has invested a lot of thought to in recent weeks.

"See, I don't know whether the word is 'struggling' or 'learning,'" Hamilton said. "I was thinking about this the other day. We all have a tendency to compare or relate one team to another. We lost some veterans last year who put the 'V' in veterans. We lost guys who were older and more mature who had been around for a while. ...